Massachusetts resident Paul Dowd “almost fell out of my chair,” as he put it in a 2021 e-mail to me when he read my book “Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials.” Bill Kasich, a U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes ...
The protagonist of this tale is William Denson, a 32-year-old U.S. Army lawyer teaching at West Point who, at the end of WWII, was summoned to head the prosecution of Nazi war crimes perpetrated at ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- With the trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein expected to begin soon, the Jewish Law Students Association at the University at Buffalo Law School will host a multi-media ...
My book, “Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials,” details the experiences of men who served in the U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group. These Americans, many barely out of their teens, were charged with the ...
Time does not diminish its horror. In the fall of 1946, Pete DiCurti was a 26-year-old court reporter assigned to the war crime trials at Dachau, site of the notorious Nazi death camp. "I worked at ...
On this day 80 years ago in the liberated concentration camp of Dachau, Germany, the first of some 465 military trials began with the prosecution of Austrian Nazi war criminal Franz Strasser. The ...
Forty-two guards and administrators of the Dachau concentration camp will go on trial next week in the first mass war crime proceedings in the American zone in Germany, it was reported here today. The ...
The trial of forty Germans charged with torturing and exterminating Jews and others in the notorious Dachau concentration camp opened here today. The defendants are accused of killing people in gas ...